BE HARSH
In an effort to understand your interests and aspirations for college, we ask you to select one of the three topics below and provide a response of up to 250 words. Please include your name, birth date, and topic choice at the top of the page.
Bowdoin students and alumni often cite world-class faculty and opportunities for intellectual engagement, the College's commitment to the Common Good, and the special quality of life on the coast of Maine as important aspects of the Bowdoin experience. Reflecting on your own interests and experiences, please comment on one of the following:
1. Intellectual engagement
2. The Common Good
3. Connection to place
The common good is relative.I do not believe that the common good is necessarily a utilitarian good because I believe the common good needs to be applicable to everyone and be achieved with cooperation.
I am an enfranchised person meaning I am the person with available means. Having my parents as my firm support and an opportunity to apply to my favorite college are the sufficient reasons to consider myself "enfranchised." As a child of a middle school English teacher, I often heard numerous accounts about students with no parents, no shelter and no food. Surprisingly, I encountered more disenfranchised people than I've ever did in Korea while tutoring numerous students. Yolanda, a student from my origami class, lives with a drug-addict mom. Conner, a student from my recorder class, eats popcorn for every meal.
I have an obligation. As a part of lucky 6.7 percent of world that gets to go to the college, I have an obligation to share my knowledge to less fortunate people without an education. As a Korean citizen, I have a responsibility to protect and pride my country. As a beloved daughter, my goal is to try to become a better daughter each passing day. The common good I need to achieve as an enfranchised global citizen is to love and help those who are disenfranchised. In Bowdoin, I wish to learn effective ways of pursuing the common good by learning from different professors and students through the works of cooperation.
